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‘Case Histories: Accessing 19th-Century Medical Records" Perspectives, August 15, 2024.

‘As AIDS Epidemic Raged, A Rogue Reagan Official Taught America the Truth," The Washington Post, June 4, 2023.

‘You Can Prevent Suicide,’ We’re Often Told. But Sometimes, You Just Can’t," The Baltimore Sun, May 1, 2023.

“The Revolutionary 1965 Supreme Court Decision That Declared Sex a Private Affair,” Smithsonian Magazine, May 22, 2022

“An Eighteen-Year Old Was Murdered on Our Lawn. Two Years Later, It is Still Unsolved,” The Washington Post, July 19, 2019

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“Finding Connections,” The Public Historian (University of California Press), May, 2018.

“Dangerous Waters: A Typhoid Scare in the Capital,” Washington History Magazine, January, 2018.

“How Vaccines Conquered the World’s Diseases,” (Co-Written with Diane Wendt), Smithsonian Magazine, September 2015.

“Don’t Reform Graduate Education in a Vacuum,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January, 2013.

“Location, Location, Location,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September, 2012. *cited in Slate as one of the earliest examples of controversial “quit lit”

“Changing History,” Co-Written with Michelle McClellan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2012.

“Writing for History Buffs,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July, 2012.

“Our Secret Non-Academic Histories,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March, 2012.

“The Sweet Spot,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January, 2012.

“History Matters,” Perspectives (American Historical Association), December, 2011 (Solicited).

“Sharing the Driving,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January, 2011.

“And If You Just Don’t Go?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2010.

“Whose Job is It Anyway?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2010.

“Plan B,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March, 2009.

“An Object Lesson,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October, 2007.

“Conference Confidential,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May, 2007.

“Outside, Over There,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May, 2005.

“The View from Outside the Ivory Tower,” Perspectives (The American Historical Association).

“‘Learning the Washington Way:’ The United States Public Health Service and the Problem of Sex Education, 1919-1996,” Occasional Papers of the Society of History in the Federal Government, March 2004.

“‘Naturally Clean and Wholesome:’ Women, Sex Education, and the Public Health Service, 1918-1928,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford University Press), January, 2004.

“Models of Masculinity: Sex Education, the YMCA, and the United States Public Health Service, 1918-1924,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Oxford University Press).

“The Great Arcana of the Deity: Menstruation in Eighteenth-Century British Medical Thought,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press). *awarded the Shryock Medal by the American Association for the History of Medicine.